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Eirini Zormpa
Doctoral researcher in psychological science with a passion for teaching and open science. Driven and reliable with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience
PhD Candidate
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, NL
2016–2020
- Planned and managed own PhD project and co-supervised intern project.
- Designed and ran multi-phase, in-lab and online experiments.
- Analysed complex datasets using (logistic) mixed effects models in R.
Graduate Research Assistant
Reading University
Reading, UK
2016
- Tested participants using EEG for a study on prospective memory.
- Transcribed narratives of Greek-English bilingual children.
Teacher of English
Mingiani-Prevyzi Foreign Language School
Serres, GR
2013-2014
- Developed and delivered lessons aimed at children aged 8-12.
- Created and graded assessments.
Education
University of Reading
MSc in Language Sciences (Awarded distinction)
Reading, UK
2014–2015
- Conducted independent and collaborative research on bilingualism.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
BA in English Language and Literature (1st Class grade)
Thessaloniki, GR
2009–2013
- Undertook Erasmus exchange at Duisburg-Essen University.
- Conducted research project on the narratives of bilingual children.
Community Organising Experience
Open Science Community Nijmegen
Co-founded local community advocating for open science. Event organiser, e.g. of a ReproducibiliTea journal club and content creator for website and newsletter.
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2018–2020
R-Ladies Nijmegen chapter
Co-founded local R-Ladies chapter with 300+ members, promoting gender diversity in the R community. See below for workshops.
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2018–2020
Teaching and Training Experience
Awards & Honours
- Donders Institute
- Donders Posters Theme 1 winner (2017)
- University of Reading
- Achieving Excellence Bursary Award (2014)
Supervision
- Wenwen Jin
- Intern at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Reviewer
- Memory & Cognition
- Journal of Open Source Software
- Frontiers in Psychology
Blog Posts
- Why mycode.R_final.v2_usethisone is not helping your workflow. Software Sustainability Institute, Speed blog written during the Collaborations Workshop 2020.
Volunteering
- Kletskoppen Child Language Festival (2018)
- Drongo Language Festival (2017)
- Erasmus Student Network (ESN) - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2012-2014)
References
- Professor Antje S. Meyer
- Promotor, supervisor
- antje.meyer@mpi.nl
- Dr Laurel E. Brehm
- Supervisor
- laurel.brehm@mpi.nl
Open data & reproducibility: R Markdown, Dashboards, Binder
UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2020 (online).
Birmingham, UK
Jul 2020
Jointly developed (with Pablo Bernabeu) a workshop on reproducibility for cognitive linguists. I showed participants how to use Markdown and HTML in and outside R and highlighted the usefulness of Binders.
Reproducible analyses in R
IMPRS Conference 2020 (online).
Nijmegen, NL
Jun 2020
Developed a workshop for psycholinguists showing how to use R projects, GitHub, and Binder for reproducible analytical environments.
Key Practices for the Language Scientist
IMPRS Language Sciences
Nijmegen, NL
2020
Jointly developed (with Julia Egger) a mandatory 6-week course teaching openness on all parts of the research cycle to new PhD students.
Towards reproducible science: Power analysis
R-Ladies Nijmegen
Nijmegen, NL
Jun 2019
Jointly developed (with Laurel Brehm and Marianne de Heer Kloots) a workshop on why and how to conduct power analyses using data simulations.
Open Science 101
IMPRS Language Sciences
Nijmegen, NL
2019
Jointly developed (with Julia Egger and Amie Fairs) a new 4-week course teaching the basics of Open Science to PhD students and post-docs.
R Markdown
R-Ladies Nijmegen
Nijmegen, NL
Oct 2018
Jointly developed (with Sara Iacozza) a workshop on creating reproducible reports with literate programming, in this case R Markdown.
Event Organising Experience
Pint of Science NL
Organiser for 3-day science communication event bringing science into Nijmegen pubs. I helped with inviting speakers and audience engagement.
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2018–2020
Friday Lunch Talks
Organiser for fortnightly informal talks at the MPI Psycholinguistics. My duties included inviting speakers, designing flyers, and chairing sessions.
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2018–2019
Open Access Ambassador Conference
Organiser for two-day international conference on Open Access in Berlin, connecting stakeholders from academia, the public sector, and industry.
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Dec 2019
Alumni Career Event
Organiser for two-day event with 11 speakers on the topic “Discovering Possibilities in Academia & Beyond”. I was responsible for analysing and presenting data from a survey of MPI alumni and liasing with speakers.
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Oct 2019
IMPRS Introduction Days
Organiser for two-day event welcoming new graduate students. I invited speakers on science and academic culture and facilitated a discussion on PhD life covering topics like work-life balance and mental health.
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Sep 2019
Selected Presentations
Open science and early career researchers
Invited talk at the meeting of the Max Planck Society Social Science Libraries (online).
Nijmegen, NL
Oct 2020
Communicative intentions influence memory for conversations
Poster presented at the 26th AMLaP conference (online).
Potsdam, DE
Sep 2020
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
Naming pictures slowly facilitates memory for their names
Poster presented at the 21st ESCoP meeting.
Tenerife, ES
September 2019
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
The power of open science communities
Unconference session chaired at the 4th SIPS Meeting.
Rotterdam, NL
Jul 2019
Stephan Heunis, Loek Brinkman, Antonio Schettino, Eirini Zormpa, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Olmo van der Akker
Publishing in science
Panelist at Synapsium 2018 conference.
Nijmegen, NL
Jun 2018
Peer-reviewed Publications
Slow naming of pictures facilitates memory for their names
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26. doi:10.3758/s13423-019-01620-x
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2019
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
The production effect and the generation effect improve memory in picture naming
Memory 27. doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1510966
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2019
Eirini Zormpa, Laurel E. Brehm, Renske S. Hoedemaker, & Antje S. Meyer